AlexLee.eu » DRM http://www.alexlee.eu A personal blog by Alex Lee Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Translation of Macrovision Response to Jobs on DRM http://www.alexlee.eu/2007/02/19/translation-of-macrovision-response-to-jobs-on-drm/ http://www.alexlee.eu/2007/02/19/translation-of-macrovision-response-to-jobs-on-drm/#comments Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:44:44 +0000 Alex Lee http://www.bitsandbytes.co.uk/2007/02/19/translation-of-macrovision-response-to-jobs-on-drm/ Daring Fireball has posted a humorous, and accurate PR-speak to Plain English translation of Macrovision’s CEO’s response to Steve Jobs’ Open Letter on DRM.

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I do love the TWiT podcasts and so any reason to mention them is great, but this did grab my attention. The conversation was on DRM and Cory raised the point that Apple don’t have DRM for the sake of protecting copy, they have it for Apple.

Basically any song you buy from iTunes (and I am not going to get drawn into the argument as to whether iTunes sales are going down or down) will have DRM and this isn’t because Apple is protecting the artist. If you buy several songs a month, after a couple of years that is a lot of music and if you did get another mp3 player, it is going to cost you a lot to move.

None of those songs are going to work and are going to have to be repurchased. Now that is a pretty big incentive not to move, so while Hollywood fights and Microsoft caves in some people are walking their own path and for their own reasons.

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